No, troth, here the Doctor does nothing but dream,

For he is too purblind to ken the subleeme’—

‘Hold, hold, my good friend—I must stand by old Milton,

While the sword that I wear has a blade or a hilt on;

That great politician, that torch of our nation,

Must never be mentioned without veneration:

Respecting the Doctor, you say very true,

I think him as scurvy a critic as you,

But consider him now in a worse point of view:

Pray is he not pensioned?—and does he not write, Sir,